Russian embassy officials expelled from Prague were spies - press

The three Russian diplomats who were expelled from Prague in reaction to the Skripal case, belonged to Russian secret services that operate in the Czech Republic under diplomatic cover, weekly Respekt said it its newest issue, citing its sources. Two of the diplomats worked for the Russian foreign civilian intelligence SVR and one for the foreign military intelligence GRU, Respekt said. According to its sources, the most important of the three spies was one of the two working for the SVR who officially occupied the post of the security director at the Russian embassy in Prague. Other embassy employees had to report all their meetings outside the embassy and what they do in their leisure time to the security director who also assessed the security risks from Czech secret services and made sure that the spies were not found out, Respekt said.